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...example, while Brigham receives $24,500 for a standard angioplasty, the lesser-known Metro-West Medical Center in Framingham receives $17,000 for the same procedure, according to analyses performed by the Globe’s Spotlight Team...
...revival of an obscure non-blockbuster can’t avoid a certain degree of controversy and skepticism. Yet, it springs from a seminal period in operatic history, and its synopsis is guaranteed to satisfy a tradition-seeking audience. Opera companies are bolder in mounting productions of lesser-known operas from the early 17th and early 18th centuries, like those of Monteverdi and Handel, but performances of works from the mid-to-late 1600s are rare. Thus, the ambition of the HEMS in selecting this somewhat hazardous reprisal is all the more admirable, but it also subjects itself...
Harvard’s lesser-known a cappella groups exemplify this sentiment best. In 2006, several members of the Callbacks formed KeyChange—a group specializing in music from the black diaspora—alongside current president Dara M. Wilson...
...renovation of the Fogg may be the best thing that has happened to the Sackler. The lesser-known little brother of the Fogg Art Museum, the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, originally housed ancient, Asian, Islamic, and Later Indian art. However, with the renovation of the Fogg Art Museum that began over the summer, the Fogg and the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s collections have found a home in the walls of the Sackler. “Re-View,” the new exhibit showcasing works from all three museums together for the first time, spans continents and centuries...
...second tier of summer's heroes included some surprises, too. Iron Man, a new franchise built around a lesser-known Marvel Comics character and a lead actor, Robert Downey Jr., whose indie-heavy resume didn't suggest he'd lure the masses, managed to take in $317.5 million. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the film most prognosticators expected to whip into first place, came in third with a respectable though not earth-shattering $315 million. Another summer sure thing - Will Smith in the superhero movie Hancock - made $226 million, a hit by most actors' standards...